“It’s emotional and it’s personal.”
EA’s inclusion of the Taliban as a playable faction in the multiplayer portion of last year’s Afghanistan shooter Medal of Honor turned enough heads to force it to scrap the idea at the 11th hour, but for THQ core games boss Danny Bilson, the Taliban should never have even been considered.
“I wouldn’t have put them in in the first place,” Bilson told Eurogamer in New York this week. “I wouldn’t have.”
THQ’s soon-to-be-released shooter Homefront depicts a ‘what if?’ scenario in which the US is invaded by Korea.